Autism researchers are facing massive cuts to federal funding, misinformation about the condition they study and worrisome ...

NIH Director Dr Jay Bhattacharya previously announced plans to develop "national disease registries, including a new one for autism" as part of a larger research effort.

NIH already keeps a list of registries for various diagnoses, but the "autism registry" report comes amid Kennedy's false ...

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said "it's hard to guarantee when science will make an advance." ...

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the ...

An HHS official told USA TODAY that the department is not creating an autism registry, but is pursuing the real-world data ...

NIH Director Dr Jay Bhattacharya announced plans for centralizing and expanding the NIH's access to patient data.

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

Editor's note: On April 25, 2025, this story was updated to reflect that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a previously unavailable video of the April 21, 2025, meeting in which NIH ...

A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, spearheaded by US Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to compile ...

The cancellations are driven by panic and distrust among the autism community in response to the recent remarks made by ...

The NIH study will seek to identify what external environmental factors could be helping to drive rising autism rates.